Elastic Integrates Native Prometheus Support to Streamline Observability
Event summary
- Elastic announced native Prometheus support, including direct ingestion via Remote Write and full PromQL support in Kibana.
- The new features allow SREs to analyze Prometheus metrics alongside logs and traces without rewriting queries or rebuilding pipelines.
- Native Prometheus ingestion eliminates the need for adapters, schema, or format translations, preserving original structure and semantics.
- PromQL support in Kibana enables users to run existing PromQL queries directly in dashboards and alerts.
- The features are available in technical preview.
The big picture
As organizations scale Kubernetes, the surge in Prometheus telemetry cardinality and volumes has forced SREs to juggle multiple tools. Elastic's move to integrate native Prometheus support addresses this fragmentation, potentially reducing incident response times and operational overhead. This aligns with broader industry trends toward unified observability platforms that consolidate metrics, logs, and traces.
What we're watching
- Adoption Pace
- How quickly SREs will transition to Elastic's native Prometheus support, given the technical preview status.
- Competitive Response
- Whether competitors like Datadog or New Relic will accelerate their own Prometheus integration efforts.
- Operational Impact
- The extent to which Elastic's solution reduces tool sprawl and operational costs for Kubernetes-heavy organizations.
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